Short exposure of the Pleiades, just showing the stars.
The Pleiades in color. A very nice photo showing the reflection nebulae. Captured from Usenet. Also in Patrick Murphy's collection.
Image of the Pleiades, M45, taken with the 0.9-m Telescope of Kitt Peak
National Observatory, in 1975. At the Pleiades' distance of about 400 lightyears,
the image field of view corresponds to a linear diameter of 20 lightyears.
Credit: AURA/NOAO/NSF
Image of the Pleiades, M45, taken with the 4-meter Mayall Telescope of Kitt Peak
National Observatory.
Credit: AURA/NOAO/NSF
Wider field image of the Pleiades star cluster, M45. It was created by David Malin from photographic plates obtained by Malcolm Hartley with the 1.2-meter UK Schmidt Telescope. It is copyrighted by the Australian Astronomical Observatory; see their usage policy. More technical information can be found with the enhanced Pleiades image cropped from this wider-field photograph.
Last Modification: October 6, 1999